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Jane Jacobs has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no…
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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that…
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet…
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.…
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary…
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities…
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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core…
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In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
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As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora…
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Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly…
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them,…
— Tony Blair
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For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history…
— Cory Booker
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Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it…
— Tom Brady
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of…
— Jimmy Carter
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We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During…
— Jimmy Carter
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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given…
— Colin Powell
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Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them…
— John Boehner
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On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New]…
— Winston Churchill
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Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.
— Ronald Reagan
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